A wide range of interesting articles that help you make informed decisions and deliver the best projects for your clients authored by our team of NBS subject specialists and construction industry contributors.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Background NBS Chorus includes the essential features needed to produce high-quality specifications in the cloud. The Chorus Pro level of subscription includes an enhanced set of features which ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
From the first versions of NBS, connecting specification writers with construction product manufacturers has always been a big part of what we do. In the 1970s, this was purely in the form of a ...
1. What clients need No two clients are the same, and each will have requirements specific to their own business needs. However, there is also much commonality across all projects and all sectors.
1. The importance of specification Many smaller practices work on less complex construction projects. While there is no universal definition of what a ‘small works’ project is, it is generally ...
1. Background The specifiers that use NBS want to create a built environment that is safe and inclusive, and has sustainable outcomes. NBS helps specifiers meet this challenge through delivering ...
Background This article illustrates how a specifier can use NBS Chorus to collaborate with a manufacturer to produce a complex specification.
One of the questions most commonly asked of NBS is what the differences are between structuring specifications by Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) and Uniclass 2015.
NBS Chorus and customer-led development
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Construction and Technology Arguably the biggest external factor influencing the construction industry is the world’s rising population. A recent World Economic Forum publication on the future of ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...